The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-11-05
ITEMS OF INTEREST.
Two HUNDRED colored people will leave

Two HUNDRED colored people will leave the
vicinity of Nashville this month for Liberia.
THE skin of the catfish is now tanned into
leather in Germany. 1t is tough, supple and ap-
pears well.
DEER are doing so much damage to the crops
in Grass Valley. Cal, that Indians are employed
TO guard the fields by night and day.
A RAILROAD STATION AGENT at Dunkirk, n Y,
in his leisure time has whitfield out of $50 pieces
of wood perfect model of locomotive and
tender. He was i've mouths on the job.
FISHERMEN at Roseburg, on the Siuslaw river.
in Oregon, caught 1000 salmon in one night re-
Gently, notwithstanding the cry being raised
that the fish are rapidly leaving Oregon waters
A PHOTOGRAPHER has succeeded in taking
an instantaneous picture of the flight of
curved ball thrown by $1,000 pitcher. 1t is
said to resemble a procession of inebriated cork
screws.
THE FISH in the Arkansas river appear to be
affected with some strange disease Many of
them are dying and rise to the surface, and it is
said those caught with hook or net spoil within
a few hours after being taken from the water.
HOLD this baby while have fight with that
man." said an East Boston woman to
sailor who had just come ashore. The sailor,
always ready TO be entertained, took the infant,
and the woman took the mans arm and walked
away.
A BRTNpLE DOG was run over by the belated
passenger train, No. 8, Thursday morning at
Plumb Creek, Neb and all his legs cut off. In
that condition, with his limbs hanging by shreds,
the animal travelled about two blocks where he
was found and killed to end his sufferings.
ASBESTOS CLOTH is being used for wearing APP
parel by the firemen in Paris. The firemen, &C
cording to 4 newspaper report, arrived at the
scene OF recent fire-the basement of house
in &c Gnl,f n sniff mr.
descend into the basement and master the
flames in a short time.
AN ingenious Frenchman has invented sys-
TEN by which train of cars can be brought to
a stop very quickly. This is accomplished by
the use of compressed air. The traveller has
only to pull rope to bring the train TO halt.
and at the same time to detach a signal which
indicates in which compartment car help is re-
CURED.
THE Pope has created the new Bishopric of
Monaco and has appointed Mgr. Theuret to care
for the Catholic sheep of the gamblers resort
So far the chief duties of the church there have
been the christening of children and the burial
or suicides but prince and princess have
opened their pockets and a grand cathedral
church is to be built.
SIR JOHN LUBBocK's bank holiday act is not
conducive to unmixed good, according to
London clergyman. who says that since it be-
came a law haSty marriages have largely in
creased, ana VINO tells WIN horror OF q scene IN
the east end recently where the marriage ser
vice was read over forty persons at once at
charge of sevenpence halfpenny each.
THE first meerschaum pipe was carved in the
early part of the Thirty Years War, and Wal
lenstein is said to have bought it. The true clay
is to be procured only at Esk-Scher, in Asia
Minor, where there are large deposits and
whence it is sent direct to the manufactures at
Ruha, of which there are at present forty, EN-
ploying almost the whole population of the dis
trict.
THE great iron deposits Of the Black Hills
have been frequently mentioned, but scarce
with an expectation that they would ever be
come of any value to the country. Tests of
the iron ores made at the school of mines ind-
cate the ores may be worked profitably by the
Bessemer process. These tests will be continued
until the actual value of the ores shall have
been determined.
Book STEALING seems to have been elevated
into regular trade in Paris; for, according to
a return drawn up by the Prefecture of Police,
the number of persons prosecuted for this
Cffanse within the last two years has been 145,
Of whom only five have been acquitted, while
ninety others have been sentenced 10 fine or inn
prsonmeut, and the remaining fifty are still
awaiting their brial.
ALL the Hop Lees and Ching LUIS and Wun
Lungs on the Chinese signs in our streets do net
necessarily indicate the names of the owners
The Chinese are very fond of naming their bus
ness places and their mercantile companies w h
notices Kwong Gu Tai, for instance, means
Great, old, good OF, as we would say, The
long established and extensive company for the
sale of articles of nigh merit"
THE chapel which C. P Huntington erected
in honor of his dead mother, in the village of
Harvinton, Conn, where he was born, was dedi-
Gated on Thursday with appropriate services.
1t is handsome structure of granite. with well
cut facings and stained glass windows, com
Inanding wide view of the neighboring valley
and picturesque hills. The whole interior, in
Guiding walls, rafters and roof, is of polished
oak.
AN OHIO PREACHER tried to quote the verse in
Matthew about mot one jot or little, and said
Not one tot or little" Then he saw that he
had erred and tried again Not one jilt or tot
tie, i" said he, and again stopped. But he would
not give up and began, Not one tit jottle'
and then with red face he gave it up and went
on with his sermon, and there were not half
dozen of his hearers who could really tell Just
what the two words were.
THE night school at the Trenton IN. J) State
prison is proving great success. Keeper Pat
terson says that it is far surprising his expecta-
tons. He thought when the project was begun
that those convicts VINO went into the school
did so for q change and would soon drop out
This. however. proved not to be the case OF
the large number who expressed themselves as
deslrous of taking lessons in the rudiments only
two names have been stricken from the list
A MAINE NEWSPAPER speaks a good word for
Mr. Blaine. He was telling, as he alone can
some excellent stories at the house of an English
gentleman, when one of the party whispered:
Mr. Blaine wouldn't you like to come down
into the smoking ROOM You might have some
stories you wouldn't care to tell before the
ladies' MIR. Blaine did moi go down. = saws the
Maine paper His stories are all of that best
kind-the story that you can tell everywhere"
A Holly. fMrcsl NAN has just acknowledged
a rare old joke of which he was the victim. Las
winter he had what is known A. q horrible coid
and friend adriSed bin ofakp strong lei.i,k.
f0fdY 31d SOlA his iect IN not water before re- |
firing. He carried out the advice to the letter |
and was having delightful doze when his wife |
left him to go to bed. At o'clock the next |
morning she awoke to find him still doing |
while his feet were firmly held in the pail by not
less than an iuch of ice.
If as many cigarettes are made by smokers |
themselves as by manufacturers-as is proba-
bly, the case-some 2,400,0 100000 of these |
wicked little articles are now consumed |
yearly in America. That means about 100 for |
every male inhabitant or sixty eight for every |
man, woman and child in the United States |
New York State, Virginia and North Carolina |
have a monopoly of the manufacture Some |
30 100000 cigarettes not included in the above |
figures have also been imported from Europe
REV. H. E. Foss, of Bath, Me-, who is on a |
preaching crusade against tobacco, has col |
lected some interesting statistics. He saws that !
in Bath alone 100000 is spent each year for TO-
bacco; that of II boys in one grammar school